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...cover was designed by Deputy Art Director Nigel Holmes and Design Consultant Tom Bentkowski. To fashion the "cokehead," they used nearly 100 one-gram packets of powdered artificial sweetener. "We found that it photographed the best," says Bentkowski. Just as well; obtaining the real thing not only would have been illegal but would have cost...
Once in the U.S., cocaine is diluted at each step in the distribution chain, usually with vegetable starches or anesthetics like Novocain. A typical retail gram of "cocaine" is only about 15% pure, although concentrations as high as 40% and as low as zero are not unusual. The price markup from dockside to coffee table is roughly ten times...
...Quakers exploited the difference in skill early. At 13:37, Penn forward David Cardi found fellow frontrunner Jan Gram-merslorf from the left with a low cross through a goalmouth crowd. The Quaker striker settled the ball, then cracked a hard drive past Crimson goalkeeper Phil Coogan to the far post...
...would normally be purchased by a well-established drug dealer on behalf of a consortium of investors. From that initial buy, the coke can change hands several times, with the drug "cut" or adulterated each time until it is about 20% pure. On a Los Angeles street corner, a gram of coke sells for about $120. One gram can then be divvied up into about ten "lines" for sniffing. An infrequent user who might snort just a couple of lines at a party, compared to 20 lines a day for a heavy user, can buy by the quarter...
...Edith," 24, a registered nurse, had a three-gram, $300-a-day habit. She went on binges, took coke intravenously and started mixing it with such drugs as heroin, morphine and Demerol. "The highs were terrific," she says, "but the lows outweighed them by a mile." When she signed a contract with the Denver clinic, she agreed to write two letters: one to her parents, confessing her dependence on cocaine and asking that they no longer support her; the other to the state board of nursing, admitting her habit and turning in her license. The letters were to remain...